Family

The Joy of Effortless Affection

Jamaica holiday, right now.

These are three of my grandchildren.  All teenagers.  Two sisters.  Three cousins.  Each is a child of the heart of a lovely configuration of devoted adults.

They’ve known each other their whole lives, though they meet as a trio only a few times a year.  Nothing diminishes their acceptance of one another, their love, their trust, their teasing.  Whatever they might hide at this point in their life just doesn’t matter.  When together they exude that rarest and most precious of energies.  Joy.  It’s infectious. Read More

"The push to change the words “nigger” and “injun” in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, because the so-called offensive nature of those terms might limit today’s readership and appreciation of that literary classic, is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how we avoid taking responsibility for our feelings––and therefore miss the chance to become more awake, more whole, more useful friends to one another."

The Essay: The Gold in Niggers and Injuns